Awarded with Sitara-i-Imtiaz Star of Distinction , the third highest honour and civilian award in Pakistan among other honours, she is remembered for folk songs and her powerful singing voice.
Born in Rajasthan , India in a nomadic Banjara household in , her family relocated to Karachi after the Partition of India. Discovered by a local producer at the age of twelve while singing at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan , Sindh , Reshma went on to record various folk songs for such labels as the Pakistan Radio.
Reshma went on to record songs for both the Pakistani and Indian film industry. Her tribe migrated to Karachi shortly after the Partition of India , when she was just one month old.
She did not receive any formal education and spent much of her childhood singing at the mazars shrines of the mystic saints of Sindh , Pakistan. She married Muhammad Khan who was from within her extended family. Reshma was spotted, at the age of 12, singing at the Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar by then Pakistani television and radio producer, Saleem Gilani.
Some of her famous songs are "Dama Dam Mast Kalandar", "Hai O' Rabba nahion lagda dil mera", [ 1 ] "Sun charkhe di mithi mithi khook mahiya meinu yaad aunda", "Wey main chori chori teray naal laayyan akhhian" song lyrics by renowned Punjabi poet Manzoor Hussain Jhalla , " Kithay Nain Na Jori ", "Lambi Judai" and "Ankhiyan nu rehen de ankhyan de kol kol".
